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‘XR Learning’ Takes Lehigh Students Beyond the Classroom
More faculty are supplementing their lesson plans with “extended reality,” or XR learning, which includes virtual and augmented reality.
Recognized among the nation’s premier research universities, Lehigh offers a rigorous academic community for more than 7,000 students.
More faculty are supplementing their lesson plans with “extended reality,” or XR learning, which includes virtual and augmented reality.
“Protecting the younger generation is one of the most important tasks,” Gardiner tells attendees of the Peter S. Hagerman '61 Lecture in Ethics.
The center provides a community for Jewish Lehigh students. The 40th anniversary of Lehigh’s first Hillel House was also recognized during the ceremony Founder’s Weekend.
Events included guided tours of Lehigh’s new Health, Science and Technology Building, a festival on the Clayton University Center lawn and more.
Lehigh researchers take a leading role in the creation of a DOE-funded center charged with harnessing renewable power from the ocean.
Krystal Ka‘ai ’10 leads both the White House Initiative and the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Graduating from Lehigh with a major in political science and a minor in business, Ka’ai wants to make sure her community has a voice at the national level. The initiative she leads coordinates a comprehensive federal response to advancing equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian populations, including efforts to address anti-Asian violence.
Keith Moored, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Virginia and Harvard and Princeton universities to help develop fast and efficient schools of bio-inspired underwater vehicles. As part of the prestigious $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) award, the team aims to discover and demonstrate the hydrodynamic principles behind high-speed, high-efficiency fish and bio-robotic schooling to build next-gen underwater vehicles.
Starting her Lehigh experience in the American West as part of Lehigh Launch, Amber Bierly ’25 backpacked through Wyoming’s Wind River Range to hone skills in leadership, teamwork and social responsibility, and studied abroad with Lehigh in Paris in summer 2022. A first-generation student, she is a part of F1RST, a student group that seeks to promote an inclusive community for first-gen and working-class students at Lehigh. She also has been accepted into Lehigh’s Eckardt Scholars honors program.
Scott Willoughby ’89, vice president and program manager for the James Webb Space Telescope program, led the team responsible for sending Webb into space to retrieve some of the most incredible space images ever seen.
The new HST building forges a link between Lehigh and the community with multiple entrances facing South Bethlehem and built-in community space for public events, lectures and research.
A spirited Reunion returns to campus for the first time after a two year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Great South Side sale helped raise $22,000 for community school programs.
As part of a commitment to sustainability, students cataloged more than 500 trees to earn a Tree Campus USA certificate.
May’s ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates the opening of the New Health, Science and Technology Building.
The CHOICES program allows middle school girls to participate in a variety of fun engineering and science experiments designed to foster an interest in STEM.
Vincent Forlenza ’75 is selected as Chair of Board of Trustees, starting his term in July 2022.
University admissions welcomes prospective students and their families to campus for in-person information sessions and tours all summer.
Members of the Lehigh Women's soccer family attend soccer legend, Gina Lewandowski '07's last game as she retires from professional competition.
The Iacocca Global Village, an intensive, immersive program that prepares students and young professionals to thrive in a global community, celebrates 25 years at Lehigh.
JJ Swenson ‘22 is a member of Lehigh’s first “posse” of students to graduate from the university as part of its partnership with The Posse Foundation in the Bay Area of California.
Graduate students Robson M. Araujo-Junior and Tarah Cicero assist Alec Bodzin on the development of a interactive games for K-12 students.
Hundreds of students attend Diner En Blanc each spring celebrating the end of the academic year.
Musikfest, the nation’s largest free outdoor music festival held each August, is steps from Lehigh’s campus.
PhD student John Kershner is awarded a Fulbright award.
Andrew Vander Pallen ’23 (left) and Heling Wang (right) test out self-driving robot protoypes with a vision-based navigation system.
The 8th annual Trashion Show, hosted by Eco-Reps, featured student designers showing off their recycled material outfits.
Undergraduate researchers win a NIH award for innovative sickle cell diagnostic device. Read More
President Helble held two in-person Community Conversations with faculty, staff and students, getting to know the campus community during his first academic year at the helm.